Death Records Now

Okay, so I would like you people to rate/describe/talk about my taste in music, and maybe tell me about some songs/artists you think I would like or should check out. Thanks!!!

Here are most of the artists in my itunes, the *’s are beside my favorites
Barenaked Ladies, Relient K, Adam Ant, Children of Bodom, No Doubt*, CAKE, Elvis Costello, Metallica*, Q-Town, Red Hot Chili Peppers*, Talking Heads, Dead or Alive, BB Brunes*, Franz Ferdinand*, The English Beat, Beck, Sam Roberts, La Roux, Family Force 5, Stand Out Riot, The Cat Empire*, Rick James, Manu Chao, Coeur de Pirate, A Fine Frenzy, Jars of Clay, Skillet, Incubus, Eminem, Sublime*, Death Cab for Cutie*, Five Star Affair, The Toasters, OneRepublic, The Flaming Lips, Gwen Stefani*, Justice, The White Stripes, Black Eyed Peas, Red, Helmut Fritz, Queens of the Stone Age, Les Fatals Picards, Streetlight Manifesto, Metric, Big D & the Kid’s Table, Dead Kennedy’s, Primus, Jet, tobyMac, Coheed and Cambria, The Hush Sound, The Ting Tings, Rilo Kiley, Hawthorne Heights, Hedley, Mustard Plug, The Killers, The Lonely Island, DC Talk, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Newsboys, The Trews, Switchfoot, Feist, MIKA, Taking Back Sunday, Superbus, David Usher, The Who, Coconut Records, Bon Jovi, Iron and Wine, Pitbull, Gym Class Heroes, Kat DeLuna, MxPx, Coldplay, Eve, Santogold, Squeeze*, Brand New, Bedouin Soundclash*, Plain White T’s, Dynamite Hack, Reel Big Fish, Vampire Weekend, All Time Low, The Shins, Wolfmother, Kansas, Journey, Pharrel, Natasja, Jay Z, The Morning Benders, Alicia Keys,

matt and kim – daylight
guarantee you’ll love it

or maybe… martha my dear by the beatles (im going limb on that one)

yugh.. vampire weekend

For an indie band with a serious poppy sound, Death Cab for Cutie is doing pretty well raking in the dough via mainstream tours and albums. The group recently announced their plans to support their 2008 album Narrow Stairs with a spring concert, hitting up Japan (Nagoya, Tokyo and Osaka) and Australia (Freemantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Newtown and Brisbane) before making a few US appearances in March. As the group’s first number one album, Narrow Stairs promotion is well worth the effort and move from their current cult status to mainstream rockers. Selling over 144,000 copies in its first week, Narrow Stairs follow up other mellow indie rockers like Dashboard Confessional as Death Cab for Cutie slowly make their way to superstardom.

For those who have been longtime fans of this quartet from Bellingham, WA it shouldn’t be a massive shock that the guys are finally seeing radio play on your favorite alternative stations. The guys, who have been together since 1997, exude an effortlessness that eradicates any sense that they aren’t hardworking. “The landscape of the thing [aka the album] is way, way more lunar than the urban meadow sort of thing that has been happening for the last couple of records,” Chris Walla, Death Cab’s guitarist, said to Billboard. “[It’s also] louder and more dissonant and…I think abrasive would be a good word to use.” Whether or not an abrasive touch led to such mainstream mania for the men who ‘posses’ our hearts’, it’s clear that here is much more to come.

Along with the newly toned Ben Gibbard (who is engaged to actress and She & Him woman Zooey Deschanel), the guys are adding up Huntington Beach singer and songwriter Matt Costa to their lineup, fulfilling every southern California’s mellow ideals that sweet soulful music mixed with acoustic guitars and a rustic voice is an ideal concert, thus making Death Cab for Cutie tickets a hot commodity as the days pass and more sunshine reveals that http://www.stubhub.com/death-cab-for-cutie-tickets is selling their concert event.

If headlining their own jaunt in Japan (followed by North America) isn’t enough, then the Death Cab guys must really be reeling in the success as their single “Grapevine Fires” from Narrow Stairs finds itself on the Barack Obama inauguration album. The album, tentatively titled Change is Now: Renewing America’s Promise, also includes tracks from Will.I.Am, Wilco, Lenny Kravitz and more. The guys are also involved in productions for the Dark was the Night album in support of the Red Hot Organization (front man Gibbard worked with Feist for “The Train Song”). Continuing their rise from small time act to Grammy nominated kings, their single “Love Song” also appears on the Sweetheart compilation sold exclusively at North American Starbucks venues, a future rarity as albums have all but been banned from the coffee conglomerate.

The men plan on starting their stint at the Langerado Music Festival March 7th before hitting up a few legendary venues in Philadelphia, Washington DC, Louisville, Memphis and more as they continue to make mainstream dreams a reality.

Meaghan Clark
http://www.articlesbase.com/art-and-entertainment-articles/death-cab-for-cutie-tickets-smiling-freely-for-the-mainstream-1178416.html

Where can I buy Indie music. I live in Los Angeles, California. I used to go to tower records, but you know what happened with that. I’m trying to buy a CD by Flunk name of album is morning star. HELP! Oh yea, any new bands that are really good! Type of music I listen to is (broken social scene, death cab for cutie, strokes, yeah yeah yeah, flunk, milosh, zero 7, interpool, mirah, etc.) Thank you for your help! =)

Amoeba is a really good large record store…they have an amazing selection…and they even have live acts…you will find anything you need there. Also if your just trying to find a particular cd…you should look online.

Some music I think you should check out is…
The knife
Simian Mobile Disco
TRENTEMØLLER
Xiu Xiu
Bat For Lashes
CocoRosie
MIXEL PIXEL
Autolux
Asobi Seksu
Kaki King
TOM VEK
Dandi Wind
we are wolves
lali puna
the teenagers
Ratatat
mylo
Stars
crystal castles
art brut
Chromatics
hot chip
Macromantics

hope I helped :]